Community: The Russo Brothers Directing the Season 6 Premiere

Joe Russo and Anthony Russo aren’t forgetting their roots, as the directors who brought you Captain America: The Winter Soldier are returning to Community again for the Season 6 premiere.

The brothers were the primary directors on Community when it began, starting with the pilot episode they helmed, and in its five seasons so far, between the two of them, they have directed 33 episodes.

Those last two episodes, impressively, come from Season 5 – especially notable since the Russo brothers were in the midst of editing their acclaimed hit, The Winter Soldier, at the time, but still took time to return to Greendale.

I spoke to the Russos today about the DVD and Blu-ray release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (more on that soon!) and asked them if -- even as they not only prep for Captain America 3 but also direct a couple of episodes of Agent Carter -- they might be able to return to Community again, now that the show has been resurrected by Yahoo for Season 6.

Replied Anthony, “We will be returning. We're going to do the first episode [of Season 6] for those guys. We're going to have a little fun with that episode. [Community executive producers] Dan Harmon and Chris McKenna are cooking up something very cool for us...”

Anthony explained that there was plenty of incentive to keep going back to Community. “The quality is always so high for the scripts on that show, so it's very exciting to tear into one of those scripts as a director.”